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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
|Canto 4, Ch. 8
Lord Brahmā also offer their respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa.
TEXT 24
मैत्रेय उवाच
एवं संजल्पितं मातुराकर्ण्यार्थागमं वचः । संनियम्यात्मनाऽऽत्मानं निश्चक्राम पितुः पुरात्॥२४॥
maitreya uvāca evam sañjalpitam mātur ākarṇyārthāgamam vacaḥ sanniyamyātmanātmānam niścakrāma pituḥ purāt
maitreyaḥ uvāca —the great sage Maitreya said;  evam —thus;  sañjalpitam —spoken together;  mātuḥ —from the mother;  ākarṇya —hearing;  artha-āgamam —purposeful;  vacaḥ —words;  sanniyamya —controlling;  ātmanā —by the mind;  ātmānam —own self;  niścakrāma —got out;  pituḥ —of the father;  purāt —from the house.
TRANSLATION
The great sage Maitreya continued: The instruction of Dhruva Mahārāja's mother, Sunīti, was actually meant for fulfilling his desired objective. Therefore, after deliberate consideration and with intelligence and fixed determination, he left his father's house.
PURPORT
Both the mother and the son were lamenting Dhruva Mahārāja's being insulted by his stepmother and his father's not having taken any step on this issue. But mere lamentation is useless—one should find out the means to mitigate one's lamentation. Thus both the mother and the son decided to take shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord because that is the only solution to all material problems. It is indicated in this connection